VN Ren'Py Where the Heart Is [S1 Rev1] [CheekyGimp]

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LionHeart 95

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CheekyGimp said:
If someone can translate this for me,


So after thinking remake...? Lets give the old shit Episode 24 a try I can conclude the following:
The Writing and any narrative causality it was supposed to create utterly collapses every episode anew.

This is growth of the MC vers life or just being a 2d Character so the player discussing this is wants to Mc to have no growth and stay true to the first ep. That is not a story but porn which this game is not!

Final example:

I got used to the random side chick from Episode XX appears => Main Girl Romance is_kill = yes
But the Jolina, Elaine, Bella at the Beach House scene invalidates a player choice five clicks after it was optioned.

If I am given the following switch board

EP 24: Mayor Decision Warning
1) E=Yes, B=No
2) E=No, B=yes
3) E=yes, B= Yes, B_revenge = yes

Why does: Fuck_J_First from Episode 22, set B=No and B_revenge = No?

These Examples show that the MC is growing to love hate relationships with the player in mid to the choice based on a predefined story so the Player is out of touch to their true self. On how to play a game. Either play out all outcomes to see the genius of the Devs’ or follow your own path to develop the story based on the constraints placed by the Developer to give the player a since of the world they imagine the Characters live in and can self immerse. Obviously the player is unable to see him/her self in the role of the MC so they miss the genius of this VN

It deselects Bella from the game without any prompt or player input and invalidates the revenge path aka third choice I made five clicks ago...
I was promised a Revenge plot and some Bella action, but now that Coffee Jane makes me rich for fucking her first I no longer want to romance or revenge Bella? WTF? Why offer a choice only to kill it five clicks later...

When playing Bella as a Li you still can Reject her later but if you push her away early she doesn’t get the message you don’t want her. (but that is later revealed part of her plan) so the Player again has missed the entire VN overall growth of the Plot. Revenge on Bella is a choice but a lame one if I was to give credence to the plan of the MC why he act as a smip in one moment but and alpha most of the other times. A harsher consequences need to be a choice of Mc similar to the rework of the touching of Monica’s ass in the first ep. A legal or huge slap by Elaine leaving a hand print on her face or (you get the ideal)

The game went from female romance option refuses MC due to cluster fuck to => MC refuses romance options by himself after choosing it...

Again the Player misses the Title of the game here “Where The Heart Is” in the beginning the MC needs love he never truly had after his mother passed. Rekindled with Monica and her daughters his heart opens but is lost looking everywhere and finds love in every girl he sees then he matures a little and see that one or more may not be his future.

TL;DR:
Don't bother with the remake if the writing in every episode causes random romance kills in the same or following episode. I lost faith in that game ever having a clear path remake or not...

At first I too did not see a reason for the remake but after playing the demos released so far I’m all in as it is giving a more real feel to the personality of the Mc and the ladies within the game. The Player posting this just feels let down but I believe based on past comments after the game completes epilogues will provide for options the Player may enjoy.

I think that the best I can decode this post!
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Skep-tiker

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Pretty sure I've seen a comment somewhere in this thread that said Jenna is happy with whoever you're with. I haven't tried it yet but, if that's the case, there should be no issue getting Lily, Debbie, Katie and Jenna. I'll have to try that next. Sounds sort of exciting tbh... :whistle: I'm not that bothered about the rest of them!
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Definitively possible
 
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felicemastronzo

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Toohat said:
How many of the girls is it possible to impregnate?

So far ive got one of the sisters, and bella i think. Others?
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To date there are 2 possible pregnancies: Jenna and Bella.

And others on which the will is expressed, but with no effect yet.

probably all LIs excluding MILFs, or at least Elaine is self-excluding.
 
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experimenting a little with AI. The main problem is consistency, for example two similar pictures of Jenna return two enhanced faces that look different enough that I would not consider them to be the same person.
Monica is always a little bit too Asian, Zarah a little bit too young looking.
Sex scenes dont work at all, and all penises are turned into fingers or wooden sticks.
 
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experimenting a little with AI. The main problem is consistency, for example two similar pictures of Jenna return two enhanced faces that look different enough that I would not consider them to be the same person.
Monica is always a little bit too Asian, Zarah a little bit too young looking.
Sex scenes dont work at all, and all penises are turned into fingers or wooden sticks.
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These look excellent. Love Zarah's new look and how realistic they look. Did a little messing around with AI a few months ago too and had the same issue with consistency. As soon as THAT improves over the next years... it will be the future of artwork for games. Also... saw some crazy stuff... where I made a SFW image, but AI randomly stuck a cock on the side of someones head instead of an ear. AI still needs a bit of work ebfore it replaces DAZ, but when it does... it will be incredible.
 
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i just don't get how having to choose between the girls and monica makes sense. eventually monica is gonna find out we're dating anyway and wont it end up being the same situation? won't she be heartbroken and expose us? ugh its annoying. anyway here's to hoping for a harem mod eventually
 
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X2Z said:
i just don't get how having to choose between the girls and monica makes sense. eventually monica is gonna find out we're dating anyway and wont it end up being the same situation? won't she be heartbroken and expose us? ugh its annoying. anyway here's to hoping for a harem mod eventually
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It is an avn where you have sex with everyone you meet, it has to be verisimilar, not realistic. Monica will not know when the affair with her daughters has become serious and is unlikely to make a scene thus ruining their happiness as well, and the same is true in reverse. You break her heart when you leave her, regardless of who you prefer to her
 
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